Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious I (Dionysious II)

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Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious I (Dionysious II)
Metropolitan of the Malankara Church
Enthroned	1815
Ended	1816
Predecessor	Mar Thoma IX
Successor	Punnathra Mar Dionysious (Dionysious III)

Died	November 25, 1816

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Pulikot Mar Dionysius II was the first Metropolitan of Malankara Church from outside Pakalomattom family. He was was consecrated by Mar Philoxenos II, of the Malabar Independent Syrian Church.

He stressed the importance of theological education and developed the Seminary in Kottayam. It was he who decreed that the assets of the Metropolitan would be assets of the Church. He was the first Metropolitan to be recognised by Travancore and Cochin as Malankara Metropolitan, by a Royal Proclamation to receive interest of Vattipanam (Fixed Deposit). He opened the Kottayam Suryani Seminary and Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) missionaries arrived to teach there.

Mar Thoma died on November 25, 1816 and laid to rest at Semiary palli. Following his sudden death, Anjoor Mar Piloxenos took over as Malankara Metropolitan.

Later Mar Philoxenos consecrated his Vicar General Punnathra Kurian Kathanar as Bishop Vattasseril Joseph Mar Dionysious I, and returned to Thozhiyoor Church.

Preceded by Mar Thoma IX	Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Church 1815 – 1816	Succeeded by Punnathara Mar Dionysious III

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